Title :
Designing user interface tools for the X window system
Author_Institution :
Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH, USA
fDate :
Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989
Abstract :
The X Window System provides an architectural substrate that supports graphical windowing interaction among computers and workstations with fundamentally incompatible machine architectures and operating systems. While X supplies a rich set of window-management and networking tools, it stops short of mandating actual user-interface look-and-feel characteristics. A description is given of the basic functionality of the X Window System and how one vendor has undertaken the design of a developer toolkit, layered on top of the X substructure, that can be used for constructing graphical user interfaces.<>
Keywords :
multiprogramming; software tools; user interfaces; X Window System; X window system; architectural substrate; developer toolkit; graphical user interfaces; graphical windowing interaction; incompatible machine architectures; networking tools; user interface tools; window-management; Application software; Computer architecture; Displays; Graphics; Network servers; Operating systems; Protocols; User interfaces; Wire; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1909-0
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301935
